So my first post about this was all about destroying or gutting the basement. This house was built in 1959 and I swear to God that the basement had not been updated since then.

Well now that the basement is gutted, we have begun to form an image of what it may look like.  I don’t know what happens to men when they start talking finished basements. All of a sudden we’re getting speakers built into walls and a wet bar, when all I wanted were cream walls and a light floor. I mean if this was the house we were going to live in for the rest of our lives (that’s another blog post in itself) then, i really would let him do what he wanted. But this is what he’s shown me so far:

And:

And:

Now I had to remind him that we’re building a basement, not an office space. And I’m not putting black on the walls or rocks on the floor, and by no means are we going to have fake palm tree’s.  I don’t mind the last one, and we’ll just replace the Crown with wine But I digress…

This is what I want:

And:

So you see our dilemma. It’s a little hard to compromise when you see the difference in vision here. Now i’ve got him to budge on the black walls and rocks, we just have to see how much more I can get him to budge… Any suggestions??

We have finally had enough of our crappy basement from the 50′s and finally decided to do something about it. 

When we first moved in, we had high hopes for this basement. But what we realized is that neither of us know how to do many handy things around the house, let alone have the desire.  When we took down the fake bar thing in the corner (what it was for is beyond me) we found about 200 time magazines shoved behind there.. and thankfully no mice. We also found Electricity 101, and that is the foundation this house was built on. Whenever the job needed doing, the previous owners (I will refer to him as the “old man”) really skimped out on things. 

For example. I was trying to put new Christmas lights up and exchange the ones that were stapled to the roof. Well when I got to the end of the roof where it turns into a corner, the old man simply CUT the wire because he didn’t want to string anymore lights. You may ask, did he put anything on the wire to seal it? No, it was a live wire on my roof.

So in the demolition of this basement we find newspaper serving as insulation, we find a thin mask of insulation on half the walls, half of them there’s nothing. And we find this:

And this:

Yes there was crap in every orifice they could shove it into. There were glass panes, there were a few silver dollars, some plaque about God.  It amazes me the crap people would keep vs throw away!

I will continue to update you all on the reconstruction of the basement. As it now stands, it’s very empty and bare.  Gosh, I should have just bought a new house LOL